Questions tagged with 'cheeseburger'http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/tags/cheeseburger2015-08-02T15:26:23ZDoes this sentence have too many "ands"?http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/7182-does-this-sentence-have-too-many-ands/
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The sentence: &quot;There is a relationship between schizophrenia and knowledge and contact.&quot;</p>
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What I&#39;m trying to say is that there is a relationship between 2 things: &nbsp;(1) &quot;schizophrenia&quot; and (2) &quot;knowlede and contact&quot; (together). There has to be a way to reduce the ands. It&#39;s driving me insane.</p>
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Thank you in advance.</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/7182-does-this-sentence-have-too-many-ands/">Aug 19 &#39;12 at 05:38</a> by <a href="/answers/users/122538/eduardo" class="profile">eduardo</a>, New member</small></p>
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This problem does make for an awkward sentence.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m going to change the example to (1) <em>bread</em> and (2) <em>peanut butter and jelly</em>.&nbsp; Instead of <em>there</em> being the subject, I&rsquo;d make <em>bread</em> the subject.&nbsp; <em>Bread has a relationship with peanut butter and jelly</em>.&nbsp;</p>
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The reason I changed the example is because I don&rsquo;t think there <em>is</em> a relationship between the disease of schizophrenia and whatever you mean by &ldquo;<em>knowledge and contact</em>.&rdquo;&nbsp; That just doesn&rsquo;t make sense to me.&nbsp; I suspect that you are discussing some sort of statistic on how the disease is diagnosed, but your meaning is very unclear.&nbsp;I&#39;d rework the sentence for clarity.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/7182-does-this-sentence-have-too-many-ands/#answer_9918">Aug 19 &#39;12 at 06:31</a> by <a href="/answers/users/24140/patty-t" class="profile">Patty T</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>